PROCEDURE FOR THE PREPARATION OF PRE-COOKED PAELLA

MODE DE PREPARATION DE PAELLA PRECUITE

English Abstract

Procedure for the preparation of the pre-cooked paella, which includes the
stages of: a) preparation of a sauce on low fire with smashed tomatoe, sma
shed onion, vegetal oil, salt, smashed garlic, paprika, sugar, ground black
pepper and an assortment of seasonings, until obtaining a not too thick --
sauce; b) mixing of the sauce with rice; c) preparation of the mixture un-
til obtaining all the sauce to be absorbed by the rice, adding colouring -
spices, meat and/or fish dehydratated products plus greens; and d) packing
of the resulting product through vacuum or deep freezing adding natural --
greens, refried meats and/or refried seafood and fresh eustaces.

Claims

.



The embodiments of the invention in which an
exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined
as follows:

1. A process for the preparation of pre-cooked
paella which includes the steps of:
a) preparation of a sauce on low fire,
based on mashed tomato, mashed onion, vegetable oil,
table salt, mashed garlic, sweet coloured paprika,
sugar, ground black pepper and an assortment of
saffron, parsley, mashed garlic, almond, hazelnut and
pine nuts, until obtaining quite a thick sauce;
b) mixing said thick sauce with rice in an
adequate proportion for the prepared sauce;
c) submitting the products, once mixed, to
an elaboration process until all the sauce is absorbed
by the rice in a single body and the rice arrives at a
refrying stage at which the rice grains being
disentangled adding, finally, when the product is still
warm, saffron-based colouring agents, in the desired
rate and a meat and/or seafood dehydrates and fish and
greens, according to the flavour to be obtained;
d) proceed to the packaging of the
resulting product, through vacuum or deep freezing,
adding greens in natural state, refried meats and/or
refried mollusk and fresh crustaceans depending on the
dehydrated added on the previous stage.
2. Process according to claim 1, characterized
in that the sauce includes for each kilogram, between
340 and 730 g. of mashed tomato, between 150 and 300 g.
of mashed onion, between 50 and 150 g. of vegetable
oil, between 10 and 40 g. of fine salt, between 10 and
30 g. of mashed garlic, sweet red paprika between 10





and 40 g., sugar between 10 and 40 g.
3. Process according to claim 1, characterized
in that for each kilogram of product to be prepared,
there are to be mixed 450 and 700 g. of rice with 250
to 450 g. of sauce, adding between 25 and 50 g. of
dehydrated food and between 25 and 50 g. of vegetable
oil.

Description

1336049



PROCEDURE FOR THE PREPARATION OF PRE-COORED p~T-T-~

This invention relates to a process for the
packaging of pre-cooked paella, which is meant to be
packed for its sale in such a state that its final
preparation can be done through a simple elaboration
process which does not require any background in
cooking skills.
For the preparation of paellas there are already
on the market some products including certain
components, such as seafood, greens, etc., in natural
and frozen state, with which a certain amount of
rations can be prepared. However, until now, there is
no product that includes all the components, the
required sauce and rice included.
The object of this invention is to develop a
process allowing the preparation of the pre-cooked
paellas, including all the precise ingredients and
components.
Another object of this invention is to develop a
process according to the above, through which certain
components (e.g. sauce, rice, seafood, and others) are
in a pre-cooked stage which allows that, at the
preparation moment, it will be enough to submit the
product to a simple cooking stage, adding water.
The inventive steps includes the stages of ~a)
preparation of a sauce including the different
seasonings for the paella, (b) mixing of this sauce
with rice in the adequate amount, (c) cooking of the



. ..

1336049




rice and sauce mixed until getting all the sauce
absorbed by the rice and (d) packing of the resulting
product through vacuum or deep freezing adding
components of greens, meats, fishes, seafood, selected
according to the flavour the paella should have.
The preparation of the sauce is to be done on soft
fire with ground tomato, vegetable oil, mashed onion,
table salt ground garlic, sweet coloured paprika,
sugar, ground black pepper and an assortment of natural
saffron, parsley, ground garlic, almond, hazelnuts and
pine nuts. Those components are to be mixed, parboiled
and fried until obtaining an almost thick sauce,
adding, if necessary, some vegetable oil in case the
sauce was prepared without the necessary amount. The
sauce and rice, well mixed, are submitted to cooking in
a container at high temperature, preferably between 50
and 260, until getting all the sauce and added oil to
be adsorbed by the rice in a single body, the rice
being the carrier of sauce and oil. During the mixing
of the different products and its cooking, the
elaboration of the rice is carried out until arriving
to a refrying stage, the rice grains disentangled the
ones from the others.
The object of the preceding stage is getting the
rice grains to be the carriers of the sauce with its
flavour at the same time, the rice gets a conservation
stage due to the absorbed oil.
To get different flavours in the process of the
pre-cooked rice, once all the aforesaid stages are
carried out and before the product is withdrawn from
the container it has been cooked in, and keeping it
still at high temperature, different flavour dehydrated
items can be added, such as meat dehydrates, seafood or
fish dehydrates, greens dehydrates and saffron-based


1336049




colouring agents.
In case the paella is meant to have no special
flavour, it won't be precise to add any dehydrated fish
if the paella has to have fish or seafood flavour,
dehydrated fish or seafood will be added. If the
paella has to have greens and vegetables flavour, the
greens and vegetables dehydrated has to be added.
Combining those dehydrates flavours of two or more
ingredients can be reached. Varying the rate of the
dehydrates added a prepared product of more or less
strong flavours can be reached.
After cooling the product prepared in the
aforesaid way, it can be packed in rations, adding
greens in natural state, refried meats and/or refried
seafood and fresh crustaceans, depending on the
dehydrates added before.
During the packaging more natural coloured red
pepper and natural peas can be added, if the paella was
prepared with fish or seafood flavour, this should be
added during the packaging, let alone the natural
coloured red pepper and the natural peas, refried
mollusk such as squid, clam, baby-clam, and fresh
crustaceans such as shrimps, prawns, Norway lobsters
and crabs.
If the pre-cooked paella has a flavour of meats,
during the packaging natural red coloured pepper and
natural peas, meats in refried stage, such as rabbit,
chicken, etc. will be added. If the paella has to have
a green flavour, during the packaging it can be added
natural greens such as coloured pepper, peas,
artichokes, eggplants, beans, etc., and meats in
refried state such as rabbit, chicken, etc.
As for the dehydrates, also the products added
during the packaging can be mixed to coincide and



4 13360~9
obtaining the desired flavours.
Once the prepared rice is introduced into its
container and the products mentioned above are added,
you can proceed to its closing through a vacuum process
or a deep freezing system.
When the rice prepared as described is to be
processed, the rice is poured into a container and
exposed to low fire, adding, once it reaches a certain
temperature, hot water, preferably at the boiling
stage. When it begins to boil the different products
packed together with the rice, such as greens, meats,
seafood, etc. are added, so that they end up cooking at
the same time, being the paella ready to be consumed,
and not requiring any other product or additive.
The base of the invention lies in the fact that
the pre-cooked rice is the carrier of the necessary
- sauce and oil, with the required colour and taste and
on the fact that the rice remains also in a refried
state and conservation due to the absorption of all the
products.